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Joseph Wechsberg在1956年8月18日的《紐約客》雜志上描述了他的經歷。

在1956年8月18日的《紐約客》雜志上，對他的經歷的描述是曾讀到的最豐富多彩的。

一片寂靜，從黑暗中傳來一個持續的降E音--如此之低，以至於我無法準確地分辨寂靜何時結束，聲音何時開始。我無法準確區分沈默何時結束，聲音何時開始。我也不能確定聲音來自哪裡；它可能來自音樂廳的兩側，或後面，或天花板。它就在那里。慢慢地，管弦樂隊開始演奏。開始時幾乎聽不到，後來音量逐漸增大，直到廳中充滿了音樂。

充滿了音樂，是萊茵河水的音樂。

當大幕拉開時。整個舞台似乎充滿了水--藍綠色的波浪，隨著音樂精確地起伏和流動。

萊茵河少女們隨著音樂從一塊巖石後面出現，她們漂亮、苗條，穿著金色的連體泳衣。

身材苗條，穿著金色的連體泳衣，音樂起起伏伏，並回到了鋼琴演奏。

沃格林德開始了她的 "Weia! Waga！" 我花了點時間才意識到。

沒有道具，沒有舞台布景；整個場景--巖石和所有--都是通過投影膠片和燈光創造的。

音樂、歌唱、水和燈光完美地融合在一起。

雖然銅管樂器占主導地位，但它聽起來並不粗野，因為它經常在瓦格納的大型管弦樂隊中出現。

在瓦格納所要求的大型管弦樂隊中。不管是意外還是設計，弦樂，特別是第一小提琴

第一小提琴的聲音有些低沈 .... 我被施了魔法。

原文：

Joseph Wechsberg's description of his experience in the August 18, 1956, issue of The New Yorker is the most colorful I have read: Then there was silence, and out of the darkness came a sustained E flat-so low that I couldn't distinguish exactly when the silence ended and sound began. Nor could I be sure where the sound came from; it might have come from the sides of the auditorium, or the rear, or the ceiling. It was just there. Slowly the orchestra began to play melodic passages, barely audible at first and gradually increasing in volume until the auditorium was filled with music-the music of the water of the Rhine. When the curtain parted,

the whole stage seemed filled with water-blue-green waves, ebbing and flowing in precise synchronization with the music. The Rhine Maidens appeared from behind a rock, pretty, slim, and wearing golden one-piece bathing suits, the music rose and fell back to the pianissimo, and Woglinde started her "Weia! Waga!" It took me a moment to realize that there were no props and no stage set; the whole scene-rock and all-were created by means of projected film and light. The music, the singing, the waters, and the lights blended perfectly. Although the brass dominated, it did not sound brassy, as it often does in the large orchestra Wagner calls for. By accident or design, the strings, particularly the first violins, were somewhat subdued .... I was under a spell.